[center][h3]Ange Ushiromiya & Erika Furudo[/h3][/center]

[center][i]"...heh, so what's the point of learning the truth when you're going to die anyways?"[/i]

[u]Follow these steps, weary traveler...[/u]

"Fine, let me rephrase that. I'm fighting to learn the truth so I can die in peace. It's better to know and die rather to live and be ignorant."

[u]...soon, the Witch will revive,[/u]

[i]"How original of you. Your brother isn't going to be happy when you say those words in front of his face. You might as well turn back and drop your journey now... Ange."[/i]

[u]...then the seagulls will cry...[/u]

"Your talk, Beatrice... it's useless..."

[u]when there are none left.[/u]

"[color=red]It's all useless.[/color]"[/center]

"Get your lazy butt up Ange-san!!!" a familiar voice snapped the auburn-haired girl from her slumber. To think... she was thinking and dreaming about her experience to find the truth, but yet, she hasn't found that certain truth to this day. Ange didn't give any groan, yawn, or vocal response, her eyes fluttering wide open as she sat up on the bed. By first impressions alone, there were many things wrong with this image she saw before her.

One, this was not her private apartment. Nor did she remember booking for a hotel such as this. Two, the assortment of other roommates here disturbed her. They were either foreign looking or purely not "normal" in terms of the simply society she grew up in despite her social status. Three, she happened to eye the tablets on the table in this hotel room. Recalling discussion from other 'witches' of such devices that were left with no set of buttons and basically 'touch-screen based,' Ange felt perplexed on actually seeing such devices. She came from the year of 1998, where such things were not invented yet. Four, it seemed too convenient that all of these people were gathered in such a spacious hotel room. It was more of a manor than a hotel room, and yet, this was clearly a hotel room due to the fact that she could see a hotel employee at work at the bookshelf in this hotel room. And finally, she saw the person that was waking her up to be a person that should not be here. Erika Furudo, the detective that was in some of the tales of the events that occurred in 1986, a detective that was killed in some of those retellings, the Witch of Truth that supposed to be cast away into oblivion... how?

"Geez... did you happen to die inside or something?" the detective made a rather dark and crude joke, especially towards Ange, which caused the auburn-haired girl to glare at the detective.

"Alright alright. Didn't mean that. But anyways, I did some looking around when I got up, and only now I decided to wake you up to report on things I've figured out. Take a gander at it, my fellow Witch of Truth," Erika decided to help the other girl catch up on events, revealing that she had picked up the tablet assigned to her as well as handing over the tablet meant for Ange to her. Of course, Ange examined the tablet's features before accidentally turning it on and revealing the message left there.

[center][i]"Hello. Please wait patiently until I am to send aid to help you out of the hotel room. We will begin the "Murder Game" shortly.  -The Watcher."[/i][/center]

"Oh, I got that message too. It's kinda weird, and if we think about it, the Watcher is definitely the culprit for us being here for this Murder Game. And believe me, it feels like someone's obsessed to recreate the Endless Witch's games," Erika commented on the whole message. By that alone, Ange already had a suspicion that someone present in this room must be responsible for either orchestrating this or being an accomplice, but she needed to see a bit more before pursuing that suspicion.

"Either way, we have our work cut out for us, and this "Murder Game" spells out trouble..." Ange sighed, crossing her arms.

"In that case, we split up! Like old times, right?" Erika happened to suggest, and you could tell that the auburn-haired girl was quite distasteful for the detective.

"Sure then Erika, but since you're talkative, go talk to the others. I'll handle myself in searching around here," Ange said before walking away from the detective. Might as well check out that corner with the [b][u]bookshelf[/u][/b], though she did happen to see a large fellow that happened to be having a childish behavior. Seeing no way around it, the auburn-haired girl gave a focused look before stepping closer to him, and speaking out,"Hello?"

Meanwhile, Erika saw a trio that happened to know each other, so the more people she happens to question, the simpler this case's premise would be for her! In order to keep the facade that she was a person of elegance and intelligence, she properly walked her way over to the three, stopping in her tracks as she did a slight curtsy.

"Please excuse me if I'm intruding in any way or form, I only thought of asking around on how and why we are in this hotel room," Erika asked with that smile of hers, a smile that made it hard to distinguish if she were genuinely smiling or just smiling in a way as a passive sneer. she purposely left out the fact that she was a detective, just to see their initial responses to her.